Allez, pour se donner de quoi rêver un peu, et vu qu'il n'y avait pas de topic là-dessus par ici, je me lance.
Une remarque dans le processus de génèse de Mana Confluence donne du crédit à la rumeur concernant une réimpression des Fetchlands dans un avenir proche :
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ld/301
Citation :
DH 3/28: A "fixed" city of Brass to improve Block Constructed mana as requested by EVL. Was a cute Besieged City.
ID 3/28: I know we were concerned that the scry lands already point to 3 color decks instead of 2 color decks. I think a strong 5-color land even further exaggerates this.
DH 3/28: Guessing we'll have a lot of flexibility on this with the concept. FFL can figure out hopefully. Think we've wanted to avoid more 5c fixing, maybe by the third set it's okay for 6 months?
SPS 5/6/13: Super happy with what this is doing for block. Multicolor decks get another few months of goodness. I think it's worth it.
ID 5/7/13: It's strange that the 2 color decks need this more than the 3 color decks that can play 12 scry lands.
DH 8/16: Question for the general population: Is this supposed to be "Pay 1 life, T: ..." instead?
KD 8/20: Per Dave and Erik: Now pay life rather than deal damage, to match the land cycles we are most likely to reprint.
ID 8/29/13: Glad we settled on pay life.
Si on sait que Wizards anticipe sur une échelle de 6-7 années le contenu des blocs (en partant d'Innistrad je crois), on pourrait se dire que cette remarque concerne les Ravlands, réimprimés dans RtR.
Seulement, les dates indiquées (2013) se situent après la sortie du bloc RtR (2012).
De plus, WOTC a récemment concédé par la voix d'Aaron Forsythe il y a à peu près un mois qu'il tenait compte de la montée en flèche de la côte des Fecthlands de Zendikar (leur raréfaction en fait, mais l'un va avec l'autre), sachant que cela devient un problème pour le développement de format Modern.
A l'écouter, rien d'immédiat cependant.
Source :
http://www.gatheringmagic.com/brainstormbrewery-podcast-042514-brainst...
Vers la 59ème minute :
Citation :
Gatheringmagic: Big question is - Fetchlands. People are complaining about these in Modern and you did such a great job with the shocklands reprints that the availability is everywhere. People can't complain about getting their shocklands; if you don't have your shocklands, you're not prepare for the format. But fetchlands? People didn't quite see that. Is it the same thing for you guys? Did you not see this happening? The demand of Modern? And eventually I'm sure that we are going to get one, if you don't want to say when, is this a concern for you guys?
Aaron Forsythe: Yeah. I mean, they did take off kind of out of the blue it felt like. Pretty recently. And obviously our turnaround time on doing anything is not instantaneous. So any plans that we have to put more fetchlands out there will take some time to execute on. But we are definitely aware of, you know, what cards people need to build decks to play Modern and what cards they're after. So we are going to do what we can.
Donc tout ceci concorde vers une réimpression des Fetchlands, l'argument phare de cette thèse étant la survie du Modern, où les newbies doivent actuellement vendre un rein pour s'offrir une manabase compétitive (400€ pour UWx Midrange).
La véritable question est donc : quand ?
Une idée ?